New Wave Presents Band of Outsiders

Jean-Luc Godard

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Jean-Luc Godard

1964

France

English and French with English subtitles

95 minutes

New Wave Members and Patrons (the Film Society’s membership group for movie lovers in their 20s and 30s) are invited to a special event to kick off 2019 (the Film Society’s 50th anniversary year)! Join your fellow film enthusiasts for a special presentation of Jean-Luc Godard’s effortlessly cool New Wave classic Band of Outsiders, an essential title of the French New Wave (and an official selection of the second New York Film Festival). Featuring a special introduction by Richard Brody, New Yorker film editor and author of Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, along with a nearby post-screening party at the Empire Hotel rooftop.

Jean-Luc Godard pitched Band of Outsiders as “Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka.” But that doesn’t quite account for the magical spell that the film casts, which has a lot to do with the youth and grace of its three young stars Anna Karina, Sami Frey, and Claude Brasseur; with Godard’s freedom of invention, which allows him to move from reverie to the antic to the unexpected celebration of sheer movement that is the now canonical “Madison” dance scene; and, in critic Manny Farber’s words, “the inclement charm Godard gets from drizzly weather.” Based on Dolores Hitchens’s novel Fools’ Gold, Band of Outsiders is one of Godard’s most beloved films.